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Switchfoot – The Shadow Proves the Sunshine | Track profile | Dork

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Switchfoot
The Best Yet
The Shadow Proves the Sunshine

TRACK

The Shadow Proves the Sunshine

From The Best Yet

Track 15

5:05

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About This Track

"The Shadow Proves the Sunshine" is a track by Switchfoot, from the album The Best Yet. The track is 5:05 long. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Switchfoot

Switchfoot

Lyrics

The Shadow Proves the Sunshine

Sunshine won't she be my mother
Sunshine come and help me sing
My heart is darker than these oceans
My heart is frozen underneath

We are crooked souls trying to stay up straight
Dry eyes in the pouring rain where
The shadow proves the sunshine
The shadow proves the sunshine

Two scared little runaways
Hold fast to the break of day light where
The shadow proves the sunshine
The shadow proves the sunshine

Oh Lord, why did you forsake me?
Oh Lord, don't be far away away
Storm clouds gathering beside me
Please Lord, don't look the other way

I am crooked souls trying to stay up straight
Dry eyes in the pouring rain where
The shadow proves the sunshine
The shadow proves the sunshine

Two scared little runaways
Hold fast to the break of day light where
The shadow proves the sunshine
The shadow proves the sunshine

Yeah Yeah
Shine on me
Yeah Yeah
Shine on me
Yeah Yeah
Shine on me
Yeah Yeah
Shine on me

We are crooked souls trying to stay up straight
Dry eyes in the pouring rain where
The shadow proves the sunshine
The shadow proves the sunshine

Two scared little runaways
Hold fast to the break of day light where
The shadow proves the sunshine
The shadow proves the sunshine

Yeah Yeah
Shine on me
Yeah Yeah
Shine on me
Yeah Yeah
Shine on me

Shine on me
The shadows prove the sunshine

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Track details

From The Best Yet

5:05

Listen

Album

31st October 2008

Track number

15

1Dare You to Move
4:07
2Meant to Live
3:20
3Stars
4:21
4Oh! Gravity.
2:30
5This Is Home
3:52
6Learning to Breathe
4:36
7Awakening
4:09
8This Is Your Life
4:18
9On Fire
4:39
10Only Hope
4:14
11Dirty Second Hands
3:16
12Love Is the Movement
5:10
13Company Car
3:13
14Lonely Nation
3:45
15The Shadow Proves the Sunshine
5:05
16Concrete Girl
5:05
17Twenty-Four
4:51
18The Beautiful Letdown
5:20
—Dare You to Move
4:07
—Meant to Live
3:20

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